The Environmental Law Department of
Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP® consists of nine lawyers and
one legal assistant. Five lawyers from the firm’s Litigation
Department also assist the Environmental Law Department on
environmental litigation matters. The Environmental Law Department
was one of the first established in a Michigan law firm and is one of
the largest in the state.

A number of Department attorneys have
served on councils of the State Bar of Michigan’s Real Property and
Environmental Law Sections. Department attorneys have also served as
chairperson of the State Bar of Michigan’s Environmental Law Section.

Many of the Department’s lawyers have
received undergraduate and graduate degrees in technical areas related
to environmental regulation, such as economics, environmental
sciences, and engineering. Several members of the Department have
also served in federal and state agencies that administer and enforce
environmental laws. One member of the Department served for 12 years
as an enforcement attorney with the United States Environmental
Protection Agency (“EPA”) in Washington, D.C., and was involved in
such landmark environmental enforcement cases as the “Love Canal” and
“Times Beach” litigation. Another attorney in the Department was a
legislative liaison with the New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection.

The Department’s attorneys regularly lecture on environmental law
issues before a wide variety of business and professional
organizations, and have published numerous papers and articles on
various facets of environmental law. The Department publishes a
newsletter on environmental issues, Honigman's Environmental Law
Focus, a quarterly publication on environmental law developments
affecting Michigan. The Department also authored the Michigan
Environmental Law Handbook, a guide to Michigan’s environmental
laws. Department attorneys have also contributed to the Michigan
Environmental Law Deskbook and the Michigan Environmental
Statutes and Regulations book published by the State Bar of
Michigan.

Dykema is a leading national
law firm built upon its Midwestern heritageand
values. Today, the firm serves
a widespectrum of national and
multinational corporate clients and offers a wide variety of legal
services. As a firm of choice for many companies, Dykema continues to
expand its work for clients who increasingly are attracted to the firm’s
sophisticated practices, skilled lawyers and commitment to value and
quality service.

Dykema's environmental practice consists of an interdisciplinary team
of qualified attorneys, paralegals and investigators specializing in
regulatory environmental issues, litigation, land use and real estate,
insurance and governmental policy and practice. We work closely with
those in our Corporate Finance and Real Estate practice groups in
negotiating environmental provisions in transactional documents and
allocating environmental risks and liability relating to transfer of
interests in real property.

Many of the Dykema attorneys have prior training and experience in a
variety of technical backgrounds, such as public health, industrial
hygiene and toxicology, chemistry and engineering. Dykema has a
substantial state-level environmental practice counseling clients in
Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin and the Eastern United
States.

Dykema environmental attorneys are strategically located in many of
the company offices. For example, the Chicago office has an active
practice before the Region V headquarters of the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency and provides legal services in the Wisconsin,
Illinois and Indiana areas. The Lansing, Michigan office is involved
on a regular basis in environmental legislation and rulemaking
activities, while lawyers in our Grand Rapids, Michigan office provide
legal services on matters in Western Michigan and Indiana.

Dickinson Wright's wide-ranging environmental practice
involves all aspects of federal and state environmental regulation.
The company has a strong industrial emphasis and also represents
developers, financial institutions, and others involved in the buying,
selling, leasing, or financing of property and companies. Dickinson
Wright serves clients in a wide range of environmental issues, from
permit applications through appeals, from offers to closings, from
policy research to environmental impact analysis, and from project
management to Brownfield redevelopment.

The environmental attorneys at
Dickinson Wright have diverse backgrounds that include experience
in environmental engineering, chemistry, urban planning, business
and communications. This diversity allows them to understand not
only the legal, but also the technical and business aspects of
clients’ environmental projects. The collective knowledge and
experience enables Dickinson Wright to serve clients’
transactional, development, compliance, crisis response,
litigation and other environmental needs with a sensitivity to
both public and government
relations that is unique to the firm. The attorneys strive to
develop a comprehensive environmental strategy tailored to the
specific needs of clients. Dickinson Wright is aggressive in the
representation of clients, yet flexible and creative in
developing solutions to ensure that
each client’s environmental project or litigation goal is
achieved.

Environmental attorneys are also key members of
Dickinson

Wright’s Energy & Sustainability Task Force. This
task force helps clients identify and address the opportunities
and challenges associated with the changing energy and
sustainability markets. Dickinson Wright’s attorneys have been at
the forefront of these issues, representing clients in
international and domestic energy matters, including oil and gas
production, electrical generation, wind turbines, biofuels production, coal
gasification, electrical transmission and
distribution, sustainability policy development and
implementation, green construction, and emissions trading.

Clients look to Barnes & Thornburg’s Environmental Law
Department to advise them on federal, state, local and
international environmental laws; to evaluate and manage
environmental issues in real estate and business transactions;
to resolve disputes with governmental entities and private
parties arising under environmental laws; and, when necessary,
to aggressively protect their interests in litigation or
alternative dispute resolution. Our Environmental Law Department
has the experience, depth, geographical reach and sophistication
to handle the most complex environmental law matters in
jurisdictions throughout the U.S. and beyond. The annual "Best
Law Firms" rankings by U.S. News and Best Lawyers ranked Barnes
& Thornburg nationally as Tier 1 in environmental litigation,
and our offices in Chicago, Grand Rapids and Indianapolis as
Tier 1 in environmental law and environmental litigation.

We advise clients on the full breadth of
environmental law, from water, soil and air regulatory
compliance and enforcement to emerging legal issues associated
with climate change, oil and gas pipelines, vapor intrusion, and
advanced remediation solutions. A number of our lawyers have
academic degrees in civil, chemical and environmental
engineering, environmental planning and policy, biochemistry,
biology, and natural resources, which enhances our in-depth
understanding of the technical issues underpinning the legal
matters faced by our clients. Our lawyers also have high-level
work experience in private industry and with environmental
regulatory agencies, and include the former assistant
administrator of the U.S. EPA Office of Solid Waste and
Emergency Response and the former acting Deputy Regional Counsel
for EPA Region 5. Many of our lawyers have been recognized by
The Best Lawyers in America as leaders in the fields of water
law, environmental law and environmental litigation.

Our environmental law clients are as diverse as our experience,
and include:

Clients appreciate our deep substantive knowledge
and our ability to focus on the practical, financial and
business implications of potential solutions for their matters.
We are frequently called upon to handle:

Established in 1980, Waste
Information & Management Services, Inc. (WIMS) is an environmental
information and research firm that has been providing strategic
information to the environmental business community since 1980.
Over the years WIMS has provided a variety of environmental
information services to many individual subscribers including
attorneys, consultants, EH&S managers, TSD operators, local
government officials and the 600 members of the Michigan Bar
Association, Environmental Law Section.

Jeffrey L. Dauphinis the founder of Waste Information & Management Services,
Inc. (WIMS) and its former affiliate organization Waste Systems
Institute of Michigan, Inc. (WSI) and has served as CEO of both
companies. Mr. Dauphin has a Civil Engineering degree from
Michigan Technological University and was previously employed with
Williams & Works consulting engineers and the West Michigan
Environmental Action Council (1969-1979). WIMS and WSI produced Michigan's leading environmental information newsletter -- Michigan
Waste Report -- from 1981-2013. Other services and products have
included numerous environmental and waste management informational
materials, conferences and educational seminars. WIMS also
operates the EcoBizPort.com website and produces three daily
environmental information E-mail services: A comprehensive Michigan
(WIMS Daily) & National (eNewsUSA) news & information
service; and a Federal Register tracking service (REGTrak). WSI
was the 1987 recipient of the Governor's Environmental Excellence
Award for Hazardous Waste Management Information (click
here for Mr. Dauphin's resume).

In 2014, WIMS relocated its office to
Interlochen, MI and launched a new daily publication -- WIMS
Daily Environmental HotSheet (Michigan & National editions)
which is now the company's only publication.

For further information on WIMS
environmental information and news services (click
here).